Philippians 3:7

Everyone who has left houses, or brothers, or sisters, or father, or mother, or wife, or children, or lands, for my name’s sake, will receive one hundred times, and will inherit eternal life.

He who loves father or mother more than me is not worthy of me; and he who loves son or daughter more than me isn’t worthy of me.

He who loves his life will lose it. He who hates his life in this world will keep it to eternal life.

He who doesn’t take his cross and follow after me, isn’t worthy of me.

For what is the hope of the godless, when he is cut off, when God takes away his life?

Whom do I have in heaven? There is no one on earth whom I desire besides you.

How narrow is the gate, and restricted is the way that leads to life! Few are those who find it.

They overcame him because of the Lamb’s blood, and because of the word of their testimony. They didn’t love their life, even to death.

So therefore whoever of you who doesn’t renounce all that he has, he can’t be my disciple.

The ransom of a man’s life is his riches, but the poor hear no threats.

“But God said to him, ‘You foolish one, tonight your soul is required of you. The things which you have prepared—whose will they be?’

But these things don’t count; nor do I hold my life dear to myself, so that I may finish my race with joy, and the ministry which I received from the Lord Jesus, to fully testify to the Good News of the grace of God.

Brothers, I don’t regard myself as yet having taken hold, but one thing I do: forgetting the things which are behind, and stretching forward to the things which are before,

For what does it profit a man if he gains the whole world, and loses or forfeits his own self?

Not that I speak because of lack, for I have learned in whatever state I am, to be content in it.

But my servant Caleb, because he had another spirit with him, and has followed me fully, him I will bring into the land into which he went. His offspring shall possess it.

and tore the kingdom away from David’s house, and gave it you; and yet you have not been as my servant David, who kept my commandments, and who followed me with all his heart, to do that only which was right in my eyes,

If your right eye causes you to stumble, pluck it out and throw it away from you. For it is more profitable for you that one of your members should perish, than for your whole body to be cast into Gehenna.

But Jesus said to him, “No one, having put his hand to the plow, and looking back, is fit for God’s Kingdom.”

“But Abraham said, ‘Son, remember that you, in your lifetime, received your good things, and Lazarus, in the same way, bad things. But here he is now comforted, and you are in anguish.

Remember Lot’s wife!

My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me.

While you have the light, believe in the light, that you may become children of light.” Jesus said these things, and he departed and hid himself from them.

This is eternal life, that they should know you, the only true God, and him whom you sent, Jesus Christ.

For you were once darkness, but are now light in the Lord. Walk as children of light,

You are all children of light and children of the day. We don’t belong to the night, nor to darkness,

seeing that his divine power has granted to us all things that pertain to life and godliness, through the knowledge of him who called us by his own glory and virtue,

Now the valley of Siddim was full of tar pits; and the kings of Sodom and Gomorrah fled, and some fell there. Those who remained fled to the hills.

Hurry, escape there, for I can’t do anything until you get there.” Therefore the name of the city was called Zoar.

Again, the devil took him to an exceedingly high mountain, and showed him all the kingdoms of the world, and their glory.

He left everything, and rose up and followed him.

Those who belong to Christ have crucified the flesh with its passions and lusts.

that I may know him, and the power of his resurrection, and the fellowship of his sufferings, becoming conformed to his death,

By this we know love, because he laid down his life for us. And we ought to lay down our lives for the brothers.

from men by your hand, Yahweh, from men of the world, whose portion is in this life. You fill the belly of your cherished ones. Your sons have plenty, and they store up wealth for their children.

The heart of the discerning gets knowledge. The ear of the wise seeks knowledge.

a time to love, and a time to hate; a time for war, and a time for peace.

After the suffering of his soul, he will see the light and be satisfied. My righteous servant will justify many by the knowledge of himself; and he will bear their iniquities.

But when he saw many of the Pharisees and Sadducees coming for his baptism, he said to them, “You offspring of vipers, who warned you to flee from the wrath to come?

but lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust consume, and where thieves don’t break through and steal;

“Again, the Kingdom of Heaven is like treasure hidden in the field, which a man found, and hid. In his joy, he goes and sells all that he has, and buys that field.

Then Jesus said to his disciples, “If anyone desires to come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow me.

Then Peter answered, “Behold, we have left everything, and followed you. What then will we have?”

For what does it profit a man, to gain the whole world, and forfeit his life?

Peter began to tell him, “Behold, we have left all, and have followed you.”

When they had brought their boats to land, they left everything, and followed him.

For whoever will be ashamed of me and of my words, of him will the Son of Man be ashamed, when he comes in his glory, and the glory of the Father, and of the holy angels.

Jesus said to them, “The children of this age marry, and are given in marriage.

In that day you will know that I am in my Father, and you in me, and I in you.

for the words which you have given me I have given to them, and they received them, and knew for sure that I came from you. They have believed that you sent me.

I have been crucified with Christ, and it is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me. That life which I now live in the flesh, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself up for me.

Therefore don’t be foolish, but understand what the will of the Lord is.

Yes most certainly, and I count all things to be a loss for the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus, my Lord, for whom I suffered the loss of all things, and count them nothing but refuse, that I may gain Christ

For if the word spoken through angels proved steadfast, and every transgression and disobedience received a just penalty,

Therefore don’t throw away your boldness, which has a great reward.

Let’s therefore go out to him outside of the camp, bearing his reproach.

But grow in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. To him be the glory both now and forever. Amen.

We know that the Son of God has come, and has given us an understanding, that we know him who is true, and we are in him who is true, in his Son Jesus Christ. This is the true God and eternal life.

they also resorted to a ruse, and went and made as if they had been ambassadors, and took old sacks on their donkeys, and old, torn-up and bound up wine skins,

Saul sent messengers to David’s house, to watch him, and to kill him in the morning. Michal, David’s wife, told him, saying, “If you don’t save your life tonight, tomorrow you will be killed.”

Listen, daughter, consider, and turn your ear. Forget your own people, and also your father’s house.

The proverbs of Solomon. A wise son makes a glad father; but a foolish son brings grief to his mother.

The unfaithful will be repaid for his own ways; likewise a good man will be rewarded for his ways.

Buy the truth, and don’t sell it. Get wisdom, discipline, and understanding.

Come! Come! Flee from the land of the north,’ says Yahweh; ‘for I have spread you abroad as the four winds of the sky,’ says Yahweh.

They immediately left the boat and their father, and followed him.

who having found one pearl of great price, he went and sold all that he had, and bought it.

For what will it profit a man, if he gains the whole world, and forfeits his life? Or what will a man give in exchange for his life?

Jesus said to him, “If you want to be perfect, go, sell what you have, and give to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven; and come, follow me.”

Another also said, “I want to follow you, Lord, but first allow me to say good-bye to those who are at my house.”

“If anyone comes to me, and doesn’t disregard his own father, mother, wife, children, brothers, and sisters, yes, and his own life also, he can’t be my disciple.

No servant can serve two masters, for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to one, and despise the other. You aren’t able to serve God and Mammon.”

For they all seek their own, not the things of Jesus Christ.

But the righteous will live by faith. If he shrinks back, my soul has no pleasure in him.”

considering the reproach of Christ greater riches than the treasures of Egypt; for he looked to the reward.

He called the multitude to himself with his disciples, and said to them, “Whoever wants to come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow me.

“His lord commended the dishonest manager because he had done wisely, for the children of this world are, in their own generation, wiser than the children of the light.

Peter said, “Look, we have left everything and followed you.”

It came to pass, when they had taken them out, that he said, “Escape for your life! Don’t look behind you, and don’t stay anywhere in the plain. Escape to the mountains, lest you be consumed!”

But Lot’s wife looked back from behind him, and she became a pillar of salt.

Satan answered Yahweh, and said, “Skin for skin. Yes, all that a man has he will give for his life.